Pleasanton, California TEA Party pictures

[Carson]

This is what it looked like entering the Pleasanton TEA Party on 4-15-2010.

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The stage and most of the people were on the other side.

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Many times the people reminded me of when we would get together at the Love-Ins of the sixties when we would get together in the parks to hang out and discuss the topics of the day.

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[Carson]

This lady had a great Soviet sounding accent. She said she came from the Soviet Union 23 years ago, if I remember right. She was very concerned the direction that the country is heading in regards to socialism. She said she has lived under it and could see the direction we were heading.

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[Carson]

Did I mention I got a chance to meet hundreds of people handing out my Super Dollar's?

It was a regular party. Well about as good as it gets for me nowadays :-)


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[parocks]

It seems like it was a really good thing. Why are so many here anti tea party?

[GunnyFreedom]

It seems like it was a really good thing. Why are so many here anti tea party?

LOL two reasons:

1) once they started becoming popular, people began to attend who were not carbon-copies of us, and we all know that the impure imperfect Libertarian is teh evul. :D

and

2) Glenn Beck decided he liked the idea enough to hold a couple of his own tea parties, and Beck has a history of coopting aspects of our movement and planting poison pills to redirect voters back to the big-government neocons. :mad: This, obviously, meant that we should just roll over and let him screw us without even bothering to try and maintain our ideological hold on the tea parties (see #1 above) :rolleyes:

[Promontorium]

OP,

see this thread "Ron Paul Supporter kicked out of Tea Party". It's the same event you were at. http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=240610

[Promontorium]

I now see you did see that other thread, but you didn't read it? It was at Pleasanton too. I would have thought, you being the only person in the thread to have attended that Tea Party you'd have said so in a thread about that Tea Party. lol.

[Carson]

It seems like it was a really good thing. Why are so many here anti tea party?


I think so many seem against them is because the Main Stream Media tells them that is what they believe, so they believe it. Or to appear to be cool or in.

I saw this all before when I was coming of the age when you question your parents. It happened to coincide with an uprising of people questioning the Main Stream Media AND their government.

We all seemed like a happy homogeneous society when I was young but trouble was-a- brewing.

That is when the Beatles hit the airwaves. Everyone seemed to divide up into those that liked them and those that didn't. The battle started! Some started wearing stuff like Beatle Boots and letting their hair grow. People started talking and finding we all didn't beleive what the television said we all believed. We did things, word of mouth, like meet up in the parks on the weekends (Love-Ins) and discussing things like the Vietnam war and many other topics that the news just didn't' tell you about.

We found one thing above all perhaps. We found lots of new friends and found they had been thinking just like us all along.

We all were growing and the media joined in at first with the comedians it seemed (Like The Laugh-in, The Smothers Brothers). Maybe they lead the way for all of us closet hippies and freedom lovers to feel free to stand up, I'm not sure. People really did open up and we earned our day in the sun.

The sign of the times is once again upon us. They shame of TEA Parties may fade and become a thing of pride and honor.

Then again maybe the TEA Parties will be captured but the people that made them possible will move on to better things. All I can say for me is it felt right and it was a great place to be on the 15th.

I sure plan on catching everyone at the next happening!

TEA Parties are definitely a Ron Paul sort of thing.

[0zzy]

who's the girl in the last picture of the first post? :)

[Carson]

who's the girl in the last picture of the first post? :)

That is a good question. She had the prettiest color blue in her hair. The camera didn't really do it justice.

She may be at the next TEA Party.